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TUESDAY. JULY 31 1934 THE REAL DILLINGER THE function of a newspaper is to hold up. in its news columns, a mirror which will truly reflect contemporary events. If the reflection is unpleasant, why, that is the fault of society. The news in a daily paper should be as objective as a good looking glass. That is the reason that The Times begins today a series of articles giving the inside story of the long chase for John Dillinger. Since this unusually lucky criminal met the end his gang so frequently had meted out to others, a small section of the public has been trying to build him up into a combination of Siegfried. Robin Hood and George Washington. Some people have been displaying some mighty shallow thinking about the whole Dillinger case. Correspondents have said in “The Message Center" that Dillinger should be excused because he merely took at the point of a gun what the bankers had taken by stealth and deceit from unsuspecting depositors. This sort of reasoning is a very ancient fallacy. Suppose you knew that your neighbor had for years been a successful safecracker. Would that give you the moral and legal right to follow his example? No, two wrongs never make a right. We have heard a great deal of sympathy expressed for the Dillinger family, particularly for his father. The Times shares in this sympathy, particularly since the family is thoroughly honest and industrious. But let us not forget the men the Dillinger mob murdered In cold blood. They had families, too. Basil Gallagher. Times staff man and reporter of most of the sensational crimes of the past decade, will in his series of articles tell the plain, unvarnished story of the last months of this hunted criminal. After you have read the facts, judge for yourself what kind of a man Dillinger really was. A NEW ERROR 'T'ONIGHT S the night. It is the night that the beer curfews will ring for the first time and the city beer and booze joints are supposed to close their doors and oust their wobbling, but freely spending, patrons. And tonight also is the start of anew life for many other beer and booze joints. With the Indianapolis police department enforcing the 1 a. m. closing hour within the city limits, the operators of places in Marion vunty are getting ready to garner the profits. No doubt many of the places in the county have a fresh supply of beer and whisky on hand and in many others the slot machines have been oiled to gather in the spendings of the suckers. The 1 a. m. closing ordinance just won't work in the long run. Naturally, it will be enforced as far as possible by Indianapolis police officers. It's anew regulation and the old story about ihe new broom and its A-l sweeping will apply. Back in the old days—not so long ago—there was a prohibition law. It was going to woik. too. Well, the same will go for the local ordinance. It will work until some smart fellow in the beer business gets tired of seeing his profits driven elsewhere and he. like his predecessors, will find some way to detour the written word. Let's hope that the Indianapolis police department doesn't make the same mistake in this case as was made a few weeks ago on the by-the-drink regulation. One arrest was made. And, after that arrest was made, city officials announced that one arrest was sufficient and promptly retired to other fields. The few days in which It took the department to decide on its victim found many liquor-selling joints wary’ of dealing out booze in wholesale rations. Some of them removed hard liquor entirely and saw business dwindle. Then with the word that only one arrest was to be made, the liquor was replaced on counters and behind bars and every body was happy. Such “test" enforcement of any law or regulation is not worthy of effort or worry. If the 1 a. m. ordinance is going to be bound up with legal tape within a few days, why start it at all? But whether it is or not. the city retailer can close his doors each morning at 1 a. m., assured that those of his patrons who haven’t satisfied their thirst are en route to county joints to fatten the purses of beer dealers, politicians, slot machine racketeers and whisky sellers who have been waiting for just such a break. GAS COMPANY ACQUISITION U EMOVAL of the Citizens Gas Company purchase cost from the tax duplicates, through the sale of bonds, is proposed by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the city utilities district. It will be necessary to raise $7,000,000 to carry out the plan which has been hanging fire in Indianapolis for many years. Proposals for the purchase of these bonds must be placed before the city authorities not later than Sept. 4. The action is one which had to be forthcoming. Under the present tax situation, the municipality could not hope to ask the taxpayers to bear the brunt of the project. Indianapolis far better off financially than many other cities in the United States. Its employes have been paid, its school, teachers have found work and pay. and the official city of Indianapolis has been able to progress through the conservative methods inaugurated by Mayor Sullivan and his aids. However, the time has come for Indianapolis to become progressive. No city in the United States which has been able to withstand the pressure of a depression can afford

now to stand back and permit progress to pass its door. There should be no reason why the bonds covering the gas company purchase can not be sold. The city and the utility will present a real investment background to any prospective purchaser of bonds who desires to Isok over the field. THE RIGHT MOVE '"P'HE TIMES, in recent weeks, often has asked that the real truth of the defunct bank situation in Indianapolis be laid before the public. Many efforts have been made to expose the operations of the city's bankers, but each of these, with one exception, has resulted in a good deal of verbal fire and newspaper publicity, but no real action which would place the blame where it belonged. Now Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker has asked the grand jury to do a thorough job of digging into the situation, much of which is “deeply shrouded mystery,” so far as bank depositors and the general public are concerned. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox previously had done all he could to bring these things to light. But Judge Baker, with the grand jury as his agent, has the opportunity to clarify many of the muddled conditions. Judge Baker's move is one in the right direction. He should follow it to the very end. WHAT’S LEFT OF GERMANY a USTRIA'S disintegration is more spec/V tacular at the moment than the German crisis, but less important. For Austria reflects Germany. The failure of Hitler in Austria reveals the weakness of Nazism not only abroad, but also at home. A government or a system stands or falls on its ability to produce. Abroad it must grow stronger, either by conquest or by winning inends. At home it must enable the people to make a living and have a distant hope of the pursuit of happiness. Hitler is not producing those results. The economic conditions and the credit of Germany today are much worse than when he took it over. He promised to help the little fellow—the laborer, the small shopkeeper, the peasant. Instead, the suffering of the little man has increased as the power of the big industrialists and Junker landowners has grown. So the great silent mass on the sidelines, which eventually turns the political balance in every country, is more and more restless in waiting for that receding promised land. Until now Hitler at least has been able to depend on his own fanatical followers. But they soon may become his chief danger. To rid himself of part of his followers who had become a liability, he resorted to large scale murder. And what of the remaining Nazis? If there is one thing Hitler has preached more than any other from the beginning it has been Pan-Germanism. Os course, union with Austria was to be the easiest part of that program. But now Hitler is farther from that goal than ever, and his impatient Nazis know it. He not only has multiplied Austrian opposition by German interference in Austrian affairs, but the Nazi assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss has completed the moral and political isolation of Germany. Fascist Italy, a few' months ago the best friend of its imitator Hitler, now is leader of the European entente against him. England, which a few months ago was lending him money, has closed her purse, and is acting with France and Italy in drawing a diplomatic net and virtual military alliance against him. Hitler's failure has almost reached the point of genius. The German republic, which he destroyed, had more real foreign friends probably than any nation in the world. He has driven them all away, except perhaps Japan—not even Germanic Austria is left. Even the kaiser and the Junkers of 1914, with their vast military machine and system of foreign alliances, could not isolate Germany from the world as Hitler has done. To be sure, the allies with their iniquitous and unworkable peace treaties, which undermined the German republic and dismembered Austria, share with Hitlerism the credit—or curse—for this galloping destruction of Germany and Austria.

SHEDDING IMPERIALISM CONTROL over Puerto Rico passed yesterday from the war department to the interior department—another step in America's retreat from imperialism. Two and three decades ago, under the spill of spread eagle speeches by Theodore Roosevelt, we gloried in the vision of empire. America. cocky after the war with Spain, had a “destiny" to fulfill. Now. after thirty-odd years of an expensive and blundering colonial policy, we are beginning to realize that the “inferior peoples" have a right to retain their own civilizations. We are shedding “the white man's burden.” Yesterday the Philippines, prize conquest of the Spanish war, began to write a constitution. They are on their road to political independence, to the relief of American sugar beet and vegetable oil interests that long have hungered for tariffs against Philippine products. The Virgin islands and now Puerto Rico, like Hawaii and Alaska, are under civil administration. The trend is toward home rule and away from absentee exploitation. America is learning that democracy and imperialism can not live under the same flag. NO FAMINE FEAR r T~'HE arrival ot a searing, crop-burning drought at a time when the United Staves government is spending millions of dollars to get fanners to reduce their crops is almost enough to make one suspect that the weather man is trying to play a joke on somebody. If it is a joke, it is a mean one. Baking heat, blistenng sunlight, and a sky which remains pitilessly cloudless for weeks at a time, with never a drop of rain to lay the dust—these are. or can be. the makings of a national calamity, and the farmers of the grain belt can be pardoned if they fail to see anything very funny in the situation. When a spell of weather like this strikes a land where the social organization is primitive. famine results. It was to guard against just such disasters that the ancient agrarian tribes of the American southwest developed such elaborate rues to appease the rain gods;

it is to help mitigate the effects of such disasters that the American public is called on every so often to contrltpte to Chinese famine relief funds. Yet the United States today, for all the damage that the drought is causing, is in no danger of famine. Cattle are dying for want of water, gram is being burnt brown in the fields, vegetable gardens are being scorched into aridity—but we are not going to have a real food shortage this winter. If any people go hungry it will be because our economic machine still is out of gear and not because the national granary has been stricken. For the same factors which led the government to hire the farmers to produce less than usual also operate to soften the blow which the elements have launched at us. Into the oldest and simplest business in the world—the raising of foodstuffs on the land—we have injected so many complications that the whole picture has changed. Bumper crops no longer mean automatic prosperity for farmers; instead, they tend to glut the markets and flatten the farmer’s purse. On the other hand, natural disasters which cut the production of foodstuffs no longer mean famine and want. It is because of the intricacy of our whole economic organization that we have to cook up such measures as the AAA. But that very intricacy is the factor that keeps us from going hungry when the age-old causes of famine are abroad in the land. CHACO WAR SUPPLIES 'T'WO months ago today President Roosevelt, -*• as authorized by congress, placed an embargo on the sale of war supplies in this country to Bolivia and Paraguay, now in the third year of their sanguinary struggle for the vast Chaco jungle. State Secretary Cordell Hull has granted permission for the export to Bolivia of threequarters of a million dollars’ worth of airplanes, aerial bombs, mortars, revolvers, hand grenades and ammunition of various types. Mr. Hull’s action may appear at first glance to flout the President’s order. But the embargo was not such a simple matter as it might seem. Old treaties prevented our forbidding exports to Bolivia or Paraguay. The embargo therefore was directed only against sales. Naturally nobody was going to export guns without first selling them. But it developed that nearly $3,000,000' worth of munitions already had been ordered, and in some cases partly paid for, by Bolivia. Some of these supplies had been completed before the embargo was proclaimed and were ready for shipment. Secretary Hull has examined all these contracts, and has ruled, in effect, that nearly one-fourth of them had progressed far enough before May 28 to constitute actual sales. Since the sales thus preceded the proclamation, he concluded that it would be unfair to Bolivia to refuse release of the goods. He will be criticised for placing the letter of the law above the interests of humanity. But friends of peace will take heart from his refusal to release $2,000,000 worth of other Bolivian orders, and from the state department’s pledge that no further shipment to feed the Chaco war will be tolerated. The real trouble lies in the lack of a general embargo act which would permit the President to clamp down on munitions exports at the beginning of a war—instead of waiting until tens of thousands of men have been killed, many of them with American-made bullets.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DK. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE seeds of the present deplorable mix-up in Austria were sown by the allies in their monstrous settlement with Austria in 1919—the so-called treaty of St. Germain. This pared down the venerable Austrian state from an area of 135,000 square miles to 32.000 square miles and the population from 30.000.000 to 6,500,000. Even this greatly reduced populace was left without adequate land to produce the needed food supply and devoid of the natural resources essential to carrying on extensive manufacturing activity. Vienna, a great city with 2.000,000 inhabitants, was shorn of its supporting background and deprived of its reasons for existence. Yet its population had to go on eating and living. The answer to this was the growth of socialism and the agitation for a union with Germany. These stirred up vast' enthusiasm and violent oppostion. Out of this conflict grew all the latter and serious complications. a a a AT first, it seemed that Austria as a whole might go socialist, but the socialist dominion later was limited to Vienna, Linz, Oraz and other urban centers. Socialistic sentiment in the country areas was centered in the Christian Socialists, who objected to the materialism and skepticism of the urban Socialists. The Vienna Socialists did wonders in the way of municipal housing and welfare work, but this necessitated heavy borrowing abroad and helped put Austrian foreign policy at the mercy of the entente, who loaned the needed money. The hostility between city and country led to the development of two militant groups—the urban Socialists organized in the “Schutzbund" and the peasantry and the landlords composing the “heimwehr.” ana 'TMiE latter was less Christian Socialist than A Fascist and it was financed in large part by Prince Ernst von Starhemberg. At first it leaned on Italian models. As early as 1927 the government. with a small army a#its disposal, had difficulty in preserving order. The confusion and enmity of Austria was further intensified hj’ the widespread discussion of a union between Germany and Austria, the “Anschlusa.” Many Germans felt that the union with Austria would compensate for German losses through the treaty of Versailles. Many Austrians saw in the union the chance to become once more members of a great German state. Ycl the proposition of a GermanAustrian union has opponents in both states. German Protestants feared the addition of the large Austrian Catholic population, while German industrialists thought that Austria would only further depress German economic ilfe. Some Austrians feared union with Protestants: others felt that Vienna would fade before the glory of Berlin; Austrian Socialists feared militaristic Prussia. So the matters stood until March. 1931. The latest trend is toward colorful furniture. But that's nothing new to mothers whose children have been playing with crayons and water colors. Science has been able to magnify the human voice 12.000 times, but a greater feat would be to reduce some human voices 12,000 times. Nearly four billion pounds of coffee have been burned in the last year in Brazil—and all because the producers got their dates mixed.

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(Ttmea readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. lAmit them to 150 words or less.) a m a DECLARES FAMILY DENTED HELP Bv William H. Welch. I am sending you a card and also a letter that my wife, Mrs. Rose B. Welch, received from her sister, Mrs. Emma Rood, R. R. 3, Quincy, Ashland township, Morgan county. The letter and card tell you that they can not get help from the trustee. No stores will take relief orders from Ashland township, as the county does not pay them. The Rood family has five children, two of them sick. Mr. and Mrs. Rood both are good workers and honest. It does not look right to let them go hungry. I could not get to any one to take this up, and knowing your paper to be one that believes in square dealing, I am sending this to you hoping you can and will see that these letters and cards are put in someone's hands who will see that Ashland township helps this family.

FINDS NO SANCTION IN LAW FOR NUDISM By W. R. Torrence. Noting different arguments in the Message Center on nudism, especially of V B. Brown and Earl S. Bailey, I do not condemn either one’s opinion on the subject at all, nor do I want to argue the question. I am not a consecrated Christian, but believe in a Supreme Being and what He says. Naturally, being human, if my eyes would fall upon a rare specimen or a thing of beauty, or curious, and being in the flesh, I should be tempted to look ajid discern it. This question is, “Is nudism and congregation of both sexes in the nude righteous or unrighteous, right or wrong, lawful or unlawful?” “Well, let’s see what the highest authority says, Genesis, 2:25. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Very well. Probably this is where they got their nudity. If you will notice, this was before sin and shame entered into the world. Now we will see what Genesis 3:7 says: “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.” Now this happened after sin and shame entered into the world, of which we are subjected to to this day, and will be until the kingdom comes that the will be done on earth as it is in heaven, when shame will be taken away. Again in Genesis 3:21: “Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them.” Proverbs 27:26: "The lambs are for thy clothing.” Morally speaking, under no law whatever of God or man can I see where both sexes should congregate together in the nude. o an MODERN YOUTH HAS ITS SAY By Jimmy Hascn. I'm just a young fellow and I’m looking at the world through a pair of comic glasses. The world is a stage, and I'm one of the audience. The people who write to the Message Center are the critics. I get a laugh for my 2 cents in reading all those squawkers’ opinions on saloons. smoking, Dillinger, motion picture clean-up, sex and nudism. I've seen life in the raw and covered up. Do I get a kick out of nudism? Haw! You’re asking me. You people think that this younger generation is going to hell. Listen, I smoke, but I don't drink. I like moving pictures. My sympathy was

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BORN 40,000 YEARS TOO LATE

Uphold’s Russia’s Refusal to Pay U. S.

By K. F. A. Uncle Sam again is attempting a settlement of the Russian war debts. One of the largest items is a loan of $187,000,000 to the Kerensky government. For about seventeen years the present Russian government was not considered permanent enough to even recognize. What a man this Kerensky must have been to borrow $187,000,000 for a country that was established only six months. Why should the present Russian government pay the loan? The United States set a precedent when it refused to assume the debts of the confederate states of America after our little revolution. Other items consist of claims by American capitalists who had investments in Russia. It is degrading to an American citizen when these international capitalists are called Americans.

with Dillinger. Sex and saloons mean nothing to my young life. Nudism holds no thrill, because you come out with a cleaner mind than when you went in. The squawkers on nudism should quit climbing those fences and looking over. The ones who squawk the loudest must have an awful shape. I’ll say this much. Keep the church out of politics and motion pictures. Everybody should attend to their own affairs and quit crying. This world has had sin ever since Adam, and will continue to sin to the end. a a a COMPLAINS OF DUST ON DENNTSTON STREET By Mrs. D. P. McMurtry. I am writing this to The Times, as I don’t know any one else who might help me. It is in regard to dust on South Denniston street, at 4500 West Washington street. I am a property owner and have lived here for twenty-one years. Many automobiles use this street, as it connects with Vandalia avenue. I read there is a lot of money to oil gravel roads. We can’t oil this street ourselves, as a neighbor has a contract to keep it scraped, and when we oiled it last summer, he scraped it under. Can you hand this to the right person to get action? It is too hot to keep our doors closed, but if they are open, everything is filled with dust. a tk, a BELIEVE DILLINGER TREATED UNFAIRLY Bt Sally and Friends. We do not believe those brave cops gave Johnnie a fair chance. We think it was the meanest trick ever played on a person. The cops got some double-crossing woman to put poor Johnnie on the spot, so our brave police would shoot him clown in cold blood. The law gave Johnnie a very bad break at the start. It was enough to make him turn on the world and. instead of helping him, it ga\a him kicks and knocks.

SUGGESTS WAY TO END CRIME Rv A Reader. I read Wednesday about another big pay roll holdup. As it happened, John Dillinger was in town, but it couldn’t be blamed on him. John was just another poor boy gone wrong. Many crimes were laid to him that he couldn't possibly have done. The public wonders how crime ever will be stopped. That can be figured out easily. Let the politicians quit their dirty work and get down to honesty, open up factories and get business going. Pay a good

[1 ivholly disapprove of what you say and ivill defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

Can capitalists who invest their capital in foreign countries and thus deprive American workmen of jobs be considered as patriotic Americans? If the American worker w T as paid his worth, the capitalists would not have a surplus for investment in foreign countries. The money that is supporting the propaganda for a big army and navy is being supplied by international capitalists who are busy waving the American flag to protect their investments. They no doubt foresee the day when other countries will confiscate these investments. Then they will run to Uncle Sam and again urge him to use his army and navy for collection purposes. And as to the cost, why worry about a few million dead men and their heartbroken mothers? Profits come first.

living wage and put all these young men to work so they will have spending money, a car and some clothes. They would like to enjoy life as well as the rich. God never intended for a few men to have all the luxuries, and starve and work the poor to death. John Dillinger won't have any more to answer for than the millionaire. He was only a victim of circumstances. If you or I had been in his place, we would have hri to do the things he did. When a soldier has to go to war, he has to shoot someone he never has seen before, but in that case I suppose God will forgive him. Some one has to protect the rich man’s wealth. Those who are always ready to condemn ought to stop and ask, ‘“Am I perfect?” I also read that Mr. Purvis was given an increase in salary for his great detective work. Yes, he’s a great man. Someone always has to tip them off. I never did see where they did anything themselves. Why give him more money?

FEARS WAR IN EUROPE NEAR Bv Virginia Bond. The present situation abroad is intensely discouraging to those who believe in peace. It seems that the European nations soon will be at each other's throats crying for the wholesale destruction of all other nations but their own. What is the matter these days, anyway? Can't the public see what another World war will mean—universal catastrophe, destruction of all civilized values, perhaps of all life itself. I have heard lately one or two persons say that “we need a war to bring back prosperity.” Ido not know how widespread this notion is, and for the sake of my muchshaken faith in the general intelligence, I hope it is rare. For my part, I can not see how war possibly can bring prosperity to any but the manufacturers of munitions, who, of course, are chiefly responsible in bringing about, this deplorable state of affairs. At this writing, Austria is being torn by civil war between two sets of Fascists; Italy is threatening invasion at any moment. If Italy invades, Yugoslavia also is waiting at

Daily Thought

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.—Ecclesiastes 1:14. EVERY man’s vanity ought to be his greatest shame, and every man’s folly ought to be his greatest secret.—Quarles.

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the border, and all the other countries likewise are waiting, like actors, for the proper cue, to join in the expected fray, while the hope for peace grows fainter and fainter. It would seem that only a miracle can save Europe from war. Meanwhile, the United States happily holds aloof, and all of us who love her and love peace—the two are almost synonymous—must bend our every energy to preserve neutrality and to prevent our war makers from dragging us into Europe’s troubles, for that way lies only destruction and despair. It. would seem that Europe is. or soon will be, in the throes of one of her recurring fits of insanity. Let us be sure that she does not manago to infect us. a a a FILLING STATION CHANGE ASSAILED B.v a Consumer. The late John Dillinger never pulled anything as raw as is being pulled by a comparatively new oil company here. Operating under the NR A at code wages was too much of a strain for the company to stand. A letter was sent to stations telling some employes their stations no longer would be operated as company stations, but that there was no cause for alarm—the superviser would be out in a few days to talk it over with them. The managers are to pay all expenses and run the station on a commission, pay their helpers, or, the company suggests, t hey can work as long as they wish if they don't wish to pay helpers. At the end of a month, the manager would own the company. The larger stations, which could make something under this plan are being kept company stations on a flat rate of wages; only the smaller ones that don’t pay are the ones on the “New Deal.”

So They Say

I guess I'll start to settle down, maybe go into some kind of business. Only I wouldn’t have tho faintest idea what to take up— John Jacob Astor 111. Capitalism is not a principle of our form of government; it is an accident.—Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university.

MY GARDEN

BY EFEIE L. WORKMAN Would you like to walk in my garden. Where the waking flowers wet with dew Lift their sweet faces in greeting To the day and the morning sky blue? Pansies grow there, shy symbols of love, Sheltered close by the daisies so tall, Unfolding their soft velvet petals As the whispering breezes call. Many hued poppies, dahlias and rose. Marigolds, zenias, foxglove, All nod a cheerful “good morning,’* To the sun soaring far up above. Clustered hollyhocks, stately and lovely, With sunflowers and golden-glow stand Like sentinels; watchful and silent, Protecting this bright happy band. Os flower children, fragrant and carefree. Won’t you come with me? Listen! and feel The unseen touch of their magic charm. And the gladness their beauty reveals.